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ABOUT 



NEW ORLEANS. 



NEW ORLEANS 






1. Population 375,000. 

2. Billion-Dollar Bank Clearings. 

3. Has 250 miles of paved streets. 

4. The center of Southern Finance. 

5. Its water facilities are unequaled. 
fi. Port charges are practically free. 

7. Has numerous large public libraries. 

8. Is the center of Southern Social Life. 

9. Largest lumber market in the South. 

10. Within short run of surf bathing. 

11. Has largest sugar refinery in the world. 

12. Near the greatest Oil Fields of America. 

13. Does not tax foreign capital. 

14. Second largest port of export in America, 

15. Has largest floating steel Dry Dock in the 

World. 
IG. Near the greatest Sulphur Mines in the 
World. 

17. Will have the largest Immigration Station 

in the South. 

18. Near the greatest Salt Mines in the West- 

ern Hemisphere. 

19. Harbor deep enough to admit the largest 

ships afloat. 

20. Is Headquarters for new Twelfth United 

States Railway Mail Division. 

21. Is the greatest Oyster Market in the World. 

22. Free stopovers for ten days on all rail- 

roads and steamship ticKets. 

23. French and Italian opera celebrated in 

America and Europe. 

24. Thirty miles of Dock facilities, with modern 

steel sheds on wharves. 



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25. Has Public Belt Railroad with free switch- 

ing. 

26. Has immense elevators for the movement of 

Grain and Cereals. 

27. Largest Cotton, Sugar, Coffee, Rice and 

Banana Market in the Union. 

28. Has river, ocean and rail competition on 

freight rates. 
20. Finest salt water fishing and hunting within 

an hour's run. 
.30. Has mnnifipnlly-owned street repair plant. 

31. Is a city of homes and handsome residences. 

32. Has 107 public schools and kindergartens, 

six universities, and many private 
schools. 

33. Steamship lines to West Indies, Mexico, 

Central America, Panama, Cuba. Porto 
Rico, and World Ports. 

34. Is the gateway of Deep Water from the 

Lakes to the Gulf. 

35. Pays Railroad Fares of Merchants buying 

goods in New Orleans. 

36. Has fifty thousand miles of railways with 

terminals here. 

37. Has scores of beautiful Public Parks and 

Lakeside Resorts, with yachting, rowing 
and motor boating. 

38. Has one of the finest electric street car 

systems in the world, with universal 
transfers. 

39. Gateway Mississippi Valley, embracing 

twenty States traversed by twenty thou- 
sand miles navigable rivers. 

40. The restaurants of New Orleans are noted 

for having the finest cooking in the 
World. 



NEW ORLEANS 

41. Is expending twenty-five millions for sewer- 

age, drainage and municipally-owned 
water works and filtration plant. 

42. The Panama Canal is 600 miles nearer 

New Orleans than to any other large 
seaport of the United States. 

43. One of tho healthiest cities In the 
Union. Average resi dent w hite death 
rate less than 15 perHHI (,000 

44. Is an ideal winter resort, offering every 

inducement to tourists and all seeking 
a milder climate. 

45. Temperature in winter seldom below 30 

degrees, and usually between 50 and 
60 degrees Fnh. In summer between 75 
and 90 degrees Pah. 

46. The Carnival City of America, the annual 

Mardi Gras surpassing, in beauty and 
cost, any similar fete in the World. 

47. The steam railroads are spending fifteen 

millions additional dollars in improve- 
ments. 

48. Hotel accommodations largely increased by 

magnificent additions. 
40. Historically the most interesting city in 
America, with the Creole quarter of 
French - and Spanish Romance, and the 
American quarter of a modern metrop- 
olis. 
50. New Orleans — THE WINTER CAPITAL 

OF AMERICA. 
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